The statue of Etienne Marcel at the City Hall in Paris recalls one of the many instances of the resistance of the city to corrupt administration and it was under one of the most autocratic and greatest of monarchs, Louis XIV, that the Parisian earned the distinctive epithet of 'frondeur' to describe his quickness to resent any encroachment on the part of authority upon his civil rights and liberties. From Wordnik.com. [A Royalist Fiasco] Reference
By this repressive policy the frondeur spirit of the. From Wordnik.com. [Russia] Reference
Some one had once called him a frondeur; he was greatly delighted with that name. From Wordnik.com. [On the Eve] Reference
Châteaubriand's father is likewise one of the discontented, "a political frondeur, and very inimical to the court.". From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
The Fronde left behind it a sense of littleness, of poverty-stricken humanity, and this particular frondeur had seen the mask drop from the features of his fellow-men. From Wordnik.com. [Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France] Reference
In that respect he has followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, who had something of the frondeur spirit, and preferred the position of a grand seigneur and a country gentleman to that of. From Wordnik.com. [Russia] Reference
It seemed to me as if Lady Ommaney and my sister discussed, as if he had been their near relation, every symptom of him, who, in the eyes of all my recent companions, was nothing better than an old frondeur, a rebel richly deserving to be put to death. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Pearls] Reference
These words, pronounced by the young ruler at the commencement of his reign, produced profound disappointment and dissatisfaction in all sections of the educated classes, and from that moment the frondeur spirit began to show itself more openly than at any previous period. From Wordnik.com. [Russia] Reference
Those gentlemen there at the gate can feel the cold for themselves, if they can't feel nothing else, "rejoined the ostler, who was a frondeur and disaffected to the government, in consequence of a drunken grandson having been turned out of the place of third assistant scullion in the kitchen of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Siren] Reference
Here (the memories framed from walls are minding) till wranglers for wringwrowdy wready are, F þ, (at gaze, respecting, four-teenth baronet, meet, altrettanth bancorot, chaff) and ere commence commencement cata-launic when Aetius check chokewill Attil’s gambit, (that buxon bruzeup, give it a burl!) lead us seek, O june of eves the jenniest, thou who fleeest flicklesome the fond fervid frondeur to thickly thyself attach with thine efteased ensuer, 4 ondrawer of our uncon-scionable, flickerflapper fore our unter — 1 I believe in Dublin and the Sultan of Turkey. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
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